Holding credibility & uniqueness at AI speed requires more than momentum.
Habits take hold without intention
Prompts and AI dialogs crowd out critical and creative thinking.
“Seems right” becomes the standard
Quality turns subjective, and trust erodes long before anyone names it.
Decisions get thinner under speed
Judgment collapses into AI-driven consensus, or whatever ships first.
This work shows up in three places, depending on where drift first takes hold.
Recenter critical thinking & creative sovereignty into the heart of your agency
When leaders feels drift anxiety, but can’t yet name it.
Recalibrating the human stance now that AI-augmented work is fully embedded, to protect creative authorship while moving fast. That stance is then translated into leadership modeling and internal narrative, creating decision norms teams actually follow without adding bureaucracy.
When the work is moving fast, and the cracks are starting to show.
Hands-on, in-flight calibration that strengthens judgment, authorship, and creative decision-making inside the workflow, so AI accelerates output without flattening the work.
When you need to protect what makes you a creative enterprise—every day, not just on big projects.
Simple, repeatable practices that keep teams oriented to distinctiveness, voice, and creative courage, establishing clear creative defaults teams return to under pressure.
Lizzy Gallagher has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of creative delivery and technology.
As AI became embedded across organizations, adoption wasn’t the hard part — retaining judgment and creativity was.
Today, she focuses on helping teams protect human authorship and decision-making in AI-augmented creative work.
Lizzy Gallagher
